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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Sorting objects in Workspace/Excel to reflect caption

Planning Analytics Workspace and Planning Analytics for Excel trees (and lists) always displays objects following their original order (classified with the original name) ignoring captions. It would be great if the default sort order can reflect t...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enhance Dataset stage to include Compression/decompress to DataSet write/read.

IIS 11.7Enhance Dataset stage to include Compression/decompress to DataSet write/read.Enable this setting to be determined at Proj level via an environment variable for turn on/off the feature and to provide the Compression codec.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Add Classifier Operation in Watson Knowledge Catalog

I have an opportunity at Honda for Knowledge Catalog in their back office operations team. This team is charged with ad-hoc reporting from a number of on premise data sources (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Excel Spreadsheets, Lotus Databases, etc). The...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Enhance PAW Security

Add functionality to assign Workbook security by group. Currently it is done by user.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

PDF documentation for IIDR CDC z/OS

There is no PDF documentation available for the product InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS for DB2 - CDC 10.2.1
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Better Front End

IBM have developed a number of front ends.TM1 Web has the limitation of same column width all the way down, poor Action Button based user interface, dubious rendering, etc. The need to generate HTML from an Excel sheet is never going to give a goo...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

DB2 Connector Stage - Truncate options

DB2 Connector stage - Truncate does not have options available to add to the Truncate command
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists